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A Game with a Throne
by Stephen Houston, Department of Anthropology, Brown University For GS on his birthday Epigraphy is, among others things, an exercise in good hygiene. As specialists, we tidy up. Through our drawings,...
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A Possible Sign for Metate
by David Stuart, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin The “Bent-Cauac” Among the still-undeciphered signs in Maya writing is the so-called “bent-cauac” element (Figure...
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Archaeological Map of the Río Usumacinta Region
by David Stuart, The University of Texas at Austin Back in 2007 I prepared this archaeological map for the UT Maya Meetings, devoted that year to The River Cities: Yaxchilan, Piedras Negras and Pomona....
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US Premiere of Dance of the Maize God
The 2014 Maya Meetings in Antigua saw the premiere of the extraordinary new documentary film from Night Fire Films, Dance of the Maize God. The US Premiere will take place this coming Sunday, February...
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The 2015 Maya Meetings: Body and Sacrifice
The 2015 Maya Meetings at The University of Texas at Austin will be held on January 13-17, 2015. The Topic will be Body and Sacrifice: New Interpretations of Ancient Maya Art, Ritual and Performance....
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“Hieroglyphic Miscellany” from 1990
by David Stuart Here’s a small item that I circulated to a few colleagues way back in 1990 called “Hieroglyphic Miscellany.” I hadn’t looked at this in many years, until I found it among some of my...
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The Chocolatier’s Dog
by David Stuart, The University of Texas at Austin Top and Side views of Monumentt 89 from Tonina (Adapted from Graham and Mathews 1996:118). The wonderful carving known as Monument 89 from Tonina,...
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A Glyph for Yuyum, “Oriole,” in a Name at Bonampak
by David Stuart (The University of Texas at Austin) and Peter Stuart (Hampshire College) Among the many people depicted in Room 1 of the Bonampak murals is an official named Aj K’an Yuyum (Figure 1)....
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Naachtun’s Stela 24 and the Entrada of 378
by David Stuart (The University of Texas at Austin) A recent press announcement in Guatemala revealed the discovery of two important early stelae at the site of Naachtun. The monuments are in bad...
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Courtesans and Carnal Commerce
by Stephen Houston, Brown University Diego Rivera was clearly fascinated by the riches of the Aztec market at Tlaltelolco. His mural, painted in 1944-1945, visible today on the second floor of the...
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Reconstructing a Stucco Text from Palenque’s Palace
by David Stuart, The University of Texas at Austin Back in the early 1980s — I can’t recall exactly what year — I found myself intrigued by the badly preserved stucco inscription from House A of...
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Deathly Sport
by Stephen Houston, Brown University On a scorching day in July 2006, my wife and I happened to visit a Roman necropolis at Carmona, just west of Sevilla, Spain – not for nothing is this called the...
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Lagunita’s Unusual “Six Ajaw Stone”
by David Stuart, The University of Texas at Austin Stela 2 of Lagunita, Campeche. Photo: Ivan Sprajc. The rediscovery of the ruins of Lagunita, Campeche, by Ivan Sprajc and his team has been widely...
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New Book: Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference by...
Language Contact, Inherited Similarity and Social Difference: The Story of Linguistic Interaction in the Maya Lowlands, by Danny Law (Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin)....
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Pehk and “Parliaments”
by Stephen Houston, Brown University Mayan languages often refer to assemblies, convocations, and gatherings. Colonial Tzotzil speaks of ch’akob k’op, a meeting marked by deliberative speech. In the...
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The Reading of Two Dates from the Codz Pop at Kabah, Yucatan
by David Stuart and Meghan Rubenstein, The University of Texas at Austin A few important hieroglyphic inscriptions are known from the ruins of Kabah, Yucatan, but most of them remain poorly published,...
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Notes on a Sacrifice Scene
by David Stuart, The University of Texas at Austin The Late Classic cacao vase K8719 (from Justin Kerr’s The Maya Vase Database) depicts one of the more grisly scenes of human sacrifice known from Maya...
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Early Classic Co-Rulers on Tikal Temple VI
by Simon Martin, University of Pennsylvania Museum The oversized inscription that runs down the back and sides of Tikal Temple VI—featuring the largest glyphs in the Maya world—presents many problems...
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The Anxiety of Influence, or, Indiana Jones, the Maya, and Tom Swift’s...
by Stephen Houston, Brown University Most Mayanists credit their interest in the civilization to a gripping lecture, the National Geographic magazine, perhaps a TV special or accessible book. Mine...
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Sculptors and Subjects: Notes on the Incised Text of Calakmul Stela 51
by Simon Martin (University of Pennsylvania), Stephen Houston (Brown University), and Marc Zender (Tulane University) Figure 1. Calakmul Stela 51 (photograph by Frances Morley, courtesy of the Corpus...
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